The Occult Technology of Power
By An Anonymous Transcriber
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INTRODUCTION
To My Son,
In this thin volume you will find the transcripts of your initiation
into the secrets of my empire. Read them again, not for the arcane
knowledge which is now second nature to you, but in order to re-
experience the shock and awe you felt twenty years ago when at age
thirty the fabulous scope of my power was revealed to you by my trusted,
and now, mostly departed advisors. Remember the surprise to the point of
disbelief, with which you beheld the invisibly delicate, but invincible
chains of deceit, confusion, and coercion with which we finance
capitalists enslave this chaotic world, Remember the feats of will and
strategy that have been required to retain our position. Then, inspect
your retinue carefully. Your heir must be equal to and eager for the
task, much as you were. Choose him carefully. As I lie here waiting for
the end, I can afford to relish the thought of our empire lasting
forever as I never dared while in charge. Rational power calculations,
so easily disrupted by the thrills of power, are now entirely in your
hands.
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THE TRANSCRIPTS
Introduction to your Initiation
1. Professor A. on the Role of Fraud in Nature
2. Professor Q. on Occult Knowledge as the Key to Power
3. Professor M. on the Economics of Central Banking
4. Professor B. on the Functions of the Central
Bank in the Mature Finance Capitalist System
5. Professor G. on Social and Business Legislation and Policy
6. Professor D. on the Role of Public Education
7. Professor X. on Prestigious Associations and Secret Societies
8. Professor Y. on Convert Operations and Intelligence
Closing Remarks
Afterward by the Transcriber
-- INTRODUCTION TO YOUR INITIATION
My son, the time has arrived to make formal what you have confidently
awaited for some years. Of all your brothers, sisters, and cousins, as
well as the offspring of my close allies, I have chosen you to be heir
to my empire. All the trust funds, foundations, and accounts through
which my empire is controlled shall pass into your hands upon my
retirement. All my alliances, understandings, and enmities with my
handful of peers around the globe shall gradually become yours. Over the
next twenty years we shall collaborate closer and closer, you and I,
until, we finally act as one.
For ten years you have toured my empire in a succession of managerial
assignments and are now familiar with the outward operations of my
crucial banking, foundation, governmental, and think-tank organizations.
Until now, my advisors and I have deflected your questions as to how and
if my diverse operations and holdings, which seem autonomous and even
contradictory, are integrated into an organic whole to serve the
dynasty's interests. The fact that you asked these questions, rejecting
my carefully nurtured public image as an idle, coupon-clipping
philanthropist, was a major factor in the high esteem in which I hold
you. Most of your competitors found puppet leadership in any one of my
organizations so awesome and gratifying that they immediately eliminated
themselves from the contest for the top position which you have won.
Such men of limited vision are necessary for my success. They bend
unconsciously to the subtle pressures to which I expose them. They can
be led in any direction I choose by simple-minded rationalizations aimed
at their vanity without being privy to my motives which would be short-
lived secrets in their undisciplined and envious minds.
Most important in your selection as my successor, however, was your
psychological nature which has been faithfully reported to me over the
years by my associates many of whom have advanced psychological
training. A man in my position must have total mastery over his
emotions.
All actions affecting the power of the dynasty must be taken on the
basis of coldly reasoned power calculations if the dynasty is to survive
and prosper at the expense of its subjects and rivals. All power is
impossible to those whose pursuit is ruled by sentimentality, love,
envy, power-lust, revenge, prejudice, hatred, justice, alcohol, drugs,
or sexual desire. Sustained power is impossible to those who repress all
their irrational longings into their subconscious only to have them
return in compulsive, out-of-control behavior that inevitably leads to
their ruin. Although often clothed in the rationalizations of power
calculation, compulsive behavior is, at root, the emotionalism of a
frightened child, desperately projecting his inner agony into a reality
he is afraid to understand, much less master.
Although you now must begin to pursue it consciously, you have already
displayed the alienation from your emotional nature that is so essential
to achieving real worldly power. You must recognize your emotional
nature as a primitive survival mechanism that was appropriate for the
jungle and perhaps useful to common men, but useless for the tasks that
confront us finance capitalists. Attachment to what you do, just because
you do it, is the primary psychological characteristic of ordinary
mortals. Such cognitive dissonance spells disaster for us. Our emotional
mechanism makes our lives worth living, but is no guide to the occult
arts of intrigue. So, continue to gratify your senses and emotions fully
at your leisure. As long as the empire prospers you will have the
resources to indulge in systematic gratification which will leave your
irrational urges sated and, therefore powerless. You will never be in
the unenviable position of the middle class strivers who must, from lack
of resources, repress their emotional natures if they are to attain any
power whatever during their lives. Typically, they end up taking their
pleasure from the victories and cruelties of their struggle. Thus, their
end ceases to be power and they eventually defeat themselves with
reckless behavior in pursuit of dominant thrills.
I have brought you into seclusion with my most trusted advisors in order
to inaugurate a new phase of your instruction. Your formal training in
the "official" political-economic world is now complete. This weekend
will mark the beginning of your training in the occult technology of
power that lurks behind outer appearances. As your tutors will explain,
"occult" or secret knowledge is the basis of all power in human society,
so I use the word "occult" advisedly, in its pristine usage. As I am
sure you are aware by now, productivity in itself does not secure power
and therefore does not secure the gratifications of life. After all,
slaves can be productive. None of my organizations in which you served
so well are concerned with advancing the techniques of satisfying human
needs and desires. Rather, all are dedicated to the surreptitious
centralization of productive, but especially coercive, efforts in my
hands or in creating the intellectual climate in which such veiled
control would be tolerated in the future. I destroy or paralyze
productive efforts that cannot be ensnared in my web.
After a break Professor A. will take the floor in order to put finance
capitalism into full biological perspective. His short talk will be
followed by similar abbreviated summaries by his six associates, all of
whom you know well. The rest of the weekend will be devoted to
forthright fielding of your questions.
-- PROFESSOR A. ON THE ROLE OF FRAUD IN NATURE
Organisms typically base their success primarily on deception and rely
on actual force or mutually advantageous trade (symbiosis) as little as
possible. This should be nearly self-evident, but is generally
overlooked due to the moral codes we elitists foist on our subjects. Let
me give a few examples in case the moral culture has to some extent
impaired your powers of objective observation. Camouflage is universal
among predators and victims alike. Blossoms imitate fragrances and
colors which are sexually attractive to certain insects in order to
effect pollination. Dogs bark ferociously and feign attack on enemies of
whom they are, in fact, terrified. The Venus Fly Trap plant lures flies
to their deaths. Men proclaim their altruism to others and even
themselves while they selfishly scramble for personal advantage. If you
doubt that fraud is normal in nature you should read Section 3 of the
Chapter 1 of Robert Ardrey's "The Social Contract" for a wealth of
fascinating examples. (Of course Ardrey fails to grasp the full
application to contemporary human society of his brilliant insights into
man's animal nature.)
Human mental prowess and communicative powers have merely provided
superb elaboration on nature's old theme of fraud, and added its own
distinctive feature: self-delusion. Primitive animal hierarchies are
based on bluff and bluster, and each member is well aware of and
accepts, at least temporarily, its position in the hierarchy. The same
wild enthusiasm and fascination for dominance and submission rages in
human hearts. However, fraud is taken one step further. Not only is
fraudulent bluff and bluster used to achieve dominance but fraudulent
altruism and collective institutions are used to conceal dominance once
achieved. Human hierarchies, in contrast to the animal variety, are best
sustained when the members are deluded regarding the oppressive nature,
or better, even the very existence of the hierarchy!
Visible rulers are highly vulnerable. Thus we see visible rulers
claiming to be representatives of God, the common good, the material
forces of history, the general will (either through vote or intuition),
tradition, or other intellectual "spooks" that serve to lessen the envy
of the ruled for the rulers. Encouraging such self-delusions among the
masses of the ruled is universal for visible governments. However, such
spooks are little protection for the leaders of such systems against
their sophisticated elite rivals and no protection against men like your
father. The Roman Empire was unquestioned by the mass of its subjects
for centuries, but the Emperors lived in constant fear of coup and
assassination.
By embracing deception wholeheartedly at every level, finance
capitalism, or rule through money, has fashioned the ultimate system yet
devised for the secure exercise of power. Men like your father, the
hidden masters of finance capitalism, govern those who govern, produce,
and think through invisible financial tentacles, the operations of which
will be elucidated later by my colleagues. Dominance in all aspects of
society is surreptitiously accomplished while the great majority of the
ruled, and even most of the visible leaders, believe themselves to be
fairly autonomous, if harried, members of a pluralistic society. Nearly
everyone believes major decisions to be the vector sum of autonomous
pressures exerted by business, labor, government, consumers, social
classes, and other special interests. In fact, the vectors of societal
power are carefully balanced by us so that any net movement is in a
direction chosen by us. The only fly in the ointment is the occasional,
but extremely messy, interferences by competing financial dynasties.
This disconcerting problem will not be a major topic for this weekend.
I now yield to Professor Q. who will elucidate the central secrets of
your father's immense money power.
-- PROFESSOR Q. ON OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AS THE KEY TO POWER
Throughout history, secure ruling elites arise through secret, or
occult, knowledge which they carefully guard and withhold from
outsiders. The power of such elites or cults diminishes as their occult
knowledge is transformed into "scientific" knowledge and vanishes as
soon as it becomes "common sense." Before analyzing the secrets of the
finance capitalist money cult, let us glance for historical perspective
at occult astronomy, the oldest source of stable rule known to man of
which astrology is but the pathetic remnant.
As soon as men abandoned the life of wandering, tribal hunters to till
the soil they needed to predict the seasons. Such knowledge was required
in order to know when to plant, when to expect floods in fertile
valleys, when to expect rainy seasons, and so on. Months of back-
breaking work were wasted by the unavailability of the calendar, a
convenience we take for granted. The men who first studied and grasped
the regularities of sun, moon, and stars that presage the seasons had a
valuable commodity to sell and they milked it to the fullest at the
expense of their credulous fellowmen. The occult priesthood of early
astronomers and mathematicians such as the designers of Stonehenge,
convinced their subjects that they alone had contact with the gods, and
thus, they alone could assure the return of planting seasons and weather
favorable to bountiful harvests. The staging (predicting) of solar and
lunar eclipses was particularly effective in awing the community. The
general success resulting from following the priesthood's tilling,
planting, nurturing, and harvesting time tables insured the priesthood's
power. Today's Christmas-holiday season continues the tradition set by
ancient priesthood, who conducted rituals on the winter solstice to
reverse the retreat of the sun from the sky. Their invariable success
was followed by wild celebrations. Popular knowledge of seasonal
regularities was discouraged by every manner of mysticism and outlandish
ritual imaginable. Failures in prediction were blamed on sins of the
peoples and used to justify intensified oppression. For centuries,
people who had literally no idea of the number of days between seasons
and couldn't count anyway cheerfully gave up a portion of their
harvests, as well as their most beautiful daughters, to their "faithful
servants" in the priesthood.
The power of our finance capitalist money cult rests on a similar secret
knowledge, primarily in the field of economics. Our power is weakened by
real advances in economic science. (Fortunately, the public at large and
most revolutionaries remain totally ignorant of economics.) However, we
established money lords have been able to prolong and even reverse our
decline by systematically corrupting economic science with fallacious
and spurious doctrines. Through our power in the universities,
publishing, and mass media we have been able to reward the sincere,
professorial cranks whose spurious doctrines happen to rationalize in
terms of "common good" the government supported institutions, laws, and
economic measures upon which our money powers depend. Keynesianism is
the highest form of phony economics yet developed to our benefit. The
highly centralized, mixed economy resulting from the policies advocated
by Lord Keynes for promoting "prosperity" has all the characteristics
required to make our rule invulnerable to our twin nemeses: real private
competition in the economic arena and real democratic process in the
political arena. Laissez faire or free-market, classical economics was
our original attempt to corrupt economic science. Its beautiful internal
consistency blinded economists for many years to the fact that it had
virtually nothing to do with current reality. However, we are so
powerful today that it is no longer possible to conceal our imposing
institutions with the appearances of free competition. Keynesianism
rationalizes this omnipotent state which we require, while retaining the
privileges of private property on which our power ultimately rests.
Although the interim reforms advocated by Marx in his Communist
Manifesto such as central banking, income tax, and other centralizing
measures can be corrupted to coincide exactly with our requirements, we
no longer allow Marxist movements major power in developed countries.
Our coercive institutions are already in place. Any real steps toward
communism would mean our downfall. Of course, phony Marxism is an
excellent ideological veil in which to cloak our puppet dictators in
underdeveloped areas.
Secondarily, the power of the lords of money rests on an occult
knowledge in the area of politics and history. We have quite
successfully corruptedthese sciences. Although many people are familiar
with our secrets through such books as "1984" by the disillusioned
George Orwell, few take them seriously and usually dismiss such ideas as
paranoia. Since real politics is motivated by individual self-interest,
history is viewed most accurately as a struggle for power and wealth. We
do our best to obscure this self-evident truth by popularizing the
theory that history is made by the impersonal struggles between ideas,
political systems, ideologies, races, and classes. Through systematic
infiltration of all major intellectual, political, and ideological
organizations, using the lure of financial support and instant
publicity, we have been able to set the limits of public debate within
the ideological requirements of our money power.
The so-called Left-Right political spectrum is our creation. In fact, it
accurately reflects our careful, artificial polarization of the
population on phony issues that prevents the issue of our power from
arising in their minds. The Left supports civil liberties and opposes
economic or entrepreneurial liberty. The Right supports economic liberty
and opposes civil liberty. Of course, neither can exist fully (which is
our goal) without the other. We control the Right-Left conflict such
that both forms of liberty are suppressed to the degree we require. Our
own liberty rests not on legal or moral "rights," but on our control of
the government bureaucracy and courts which apply the complex,
subjective regulations we dupe the public into supporting for our
benefit.
Innumerable meaningless conflicts to divert the attention of the public
from our operations find fertile ground in the bitter hatreds of the
Right-Left imbroglio. Right and Left are irreconcilable on racial
policy, treatment of criminals, law enforcement, pornography, foreign
policy, women's liberation, and censorship to name just a few issues.
Although censorship in the name of "fairness" has been useful in
broadcasting and may yet be required in journalism, we generally do not
take sides in these issues. Instead we attempt to prolong the conflicts
by supporting both sides as required. War, of course, is the ultimate
diversionary conflict and the health of our system. War provides the
perfect cover of emergency and crisis behind which we consolidate our
power. Since nuclear war presents dangers even to us, more and more we
have resorted to economic crisis, energy shortages, ecological hysteria,
and managed political drama to fill the gap. Meaningless, brush fire
wars, though, remain useful.
We promote phony free-enterprise on the Right and phony democratic
socialism on the Left. Thus, we obtain a "free-enterprise" whose
"competition" is carefully regulated by the bureaucracy we control and
whose nationalized enterprises are controlled directly through our
government. In this way, we maintain a society in which the basis of our
power, legal titles to property and money, remain secure, but in which
the peril of free, unregulated competition is avoided and popular
sovereignty is nullified. The democratic process is a sitting duck for
our money power. Invariably we determine the candidates of the major
parties and then proceed to pick the winners. Any attempts at campaign
reforms simply put the rules of the game more firmly under our
government's control.
Totalitarianism of the fascist or communist varieties is no danger to us
as long as bastions of private property remain to serve as our bases of
operation. Totalitarian governments of both Right and Left, because of
the vulnerability of their highly visible leaders to party rivals, can
be manipulated easily from abroad. Primarily, totalitarian dictatorships
efficiently prevent new money lords that could challenge our power from
arising in whole continents, civilizations, and races.
Perhaps a few words on ideology proper are in order before I conclude.
The only valid ideology, of course, is rational egoism, that is, the
maximization of the individual's gratification by whatever means prove
practical. This requires power over nature, especially, when possible,
power over other humans who are the most versatile and valuable tools of
all. Fortunately, we do not have a society of egoists. Money lords would
be impossible in such a society as the mental spooks and
rationalizations by which we characteristically manipulate and deceive
would be a laughingstock. Under such circumstances a policy of live-and-
let live or true "laissez-faire" anarchy might be the only alternative.
Certainly a hierarchical order would be difficult to maintain by force
alone. However, in the current era, while minds are yet in the thrall of
altruistic, collectivistic, and divine moralistic spooks, the egoist's
rational course is to utilize such spooks to control others.
The next speaker, Professor M., will detail the key in situation of our
power: Central Banking.
-- PROFESSOR M. ON THE ECONOMICS OF CENTRAL BANKING
As you have a doctorate degree in economics from a great university, I
will touch as lightly as my verbosity allows on facts accepted by
economic "science" and proceed to occult aspects of Central Banking.
Since the division of labor is the key to all human achievement and
satisfaction, a system of exchange is crucial. Barter is hopelessly
complicated. A command economy, in which each does and receives what he
is told, is also hopelessly cumbersome and fails to take advantage of
individual initiative, ability, and concrete knowledge. A medium of
exchange, money, is the obvious solution. (Even our highly centralized
economies on the socialist model now enthusiastically embrace money as
an indispensable simplifying tool in their economic planning.)
When left to themselves, people of a given geographical area settled
upon a durable luxury commodity, usually gold or silver, to use as
money. Because money is a store of value as well as a medium of
exchange, people saved part of their gold income rather than spending it
all. This gold was often stored in the vaults of a local goldsmith, the
precursor of the modern banker, for safekeeping. The depositor received
a receipt that entitled him to an equal quantity and quality of gold on
demand from the goldsmith. At some point the goldsmith realized that
there was no reason he could not loan out some of the gold for interest
as long as he kept gold on hand sufficient to meet the fairly
predictable withdrawal rate. After all, he simply promised to pay on
demand, not hold the gold as such. Better yet, he could simply issue
more receipts for gold than he had gold and the receipts, renamed notes,
could circulate freely among the populace as money.
However, he soon found that there was a definite limit set on this
process by reality. Not all the extra notes issued circulated forever
among the public. The rate of note redemption began to increase rapidly
as the receipts passed into the hands of people unfamiliar with his
reputation and especially when competitive goldsmiths, always eager for
more gold reserves, came into possession of his notes. To prevent a
disastrous run on his gold reserves, note issuance had to be kept within
bounds. But the spending power of over-issuance was a grave temptation.
Especially relished was the power over governments, industry, and
merchants that the miraculous loan power of the goldsmith could obtain.
Many succumbed to temptation, overextended themselves, and brought ruin
to their depositors while others slowly became wealthy bankers by
pursuing conservative loan policies.
At this point, according to economic "science," Central Banks are
instituted to protect the public from periodic financial catastrophe at
the hands of unscrupulous fractional reserve bankers. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Central Banks are established to remove the
limitation on over issuance that reality places on competitive banking
systems. As early as ancient Babylon and India, Central Banking, the art
of monopolizing the issuance of money, had been developed into a perfect
method for looting the general public. Even today many bankers copy the
traditions of the earlier exploitive priesthood and design their banks
to resemble temples! Defenses of Central Banking are simply part of the
deception that lies at the heart of all power elites.
Let us look at the way a new Central Bank is created where none has
existed previously. We bankers approach the Prince or ruling assembly
(both of whom always want more money to fight wars or to curry favor
with the people and, typically, are ignorant of economics) with a
compelling proposal: "Grant our bank a national Charter to regulate
private banking and to issue legal tender notes, that is, force our
notes to be accepted as payment for all debts, public and private. In
exchange we will provide the government all the notes it prudently
requires at interest rates easily payable with existing taxes. The
increased government purchasing power thus created will simultaneously
assure the power and prestige of the currently precarious nation and
stimulate the sluggish, credit-starved economy to new heights of
prosperity, Most important the violent banking panics and credit
collapses caused by unscrupulous private bankers will be replaced by our
even handed, beneficent and scientific management of money and banking.
Our public-spirited expertise will be at the disposal of the state,
while we remain independent enough of momentary political pressures to
assure sound management."
For a while this system seems to work remarkably well with full
employment for everyone. The government and public does not notice that
we issuers of the new notes are using the notes we create out of thin
air to surreptitiously build economic empires at the expense of
established interests. Because of the legal tender laws, few of the new
notes issued by the Central Bank are returned for redemption in gold. In
fact, private banks and even a few foreign banks may beg;n to use the
Central Bank's notes as reserves for further issuance of credit. Soon
enough, though, prices begin to rise as the added notes increase demand
relative to the quantity of goods and services. As the value of their
savings decline more and more, foreigners in particular begin to
question the value of the Central Bank's notes and start to demand
redemption in gold. We, of course, do not take responsibility for the
rampant inflation when it comes. We blame inflation on evil speculators
who drive up prices for personal gain, as well as the greed of organized
labor and business who are promptly made subject to wage and price
controls. Even the consumer can be made to feel guilty for agreeing to
pay the high prices! Mistaking symptoms for causes the government
accepts the banker's analysis of the problem and continues to give the
Bank free reign in monetary policy.
By slowing the rate of note issuance periodically the ultimate crisis
stage is postponed until many decades after the original Central Bank
Charter was granted. Before the rapidly dwindling gold reserves on which
faith in our Bank depends is exhausted we abruptly contract our loan
volume to private industry and government as well. With the contraction
of the money supply a great deflationary crash begins in earnest with
all its attendant unemployment, bankruptcies, and civil strife. We do
not take responsibility for the depression. We blame it on evil hoarders
who are refusing to spend their money and the prophets of doom who are
spoiling business confidence. The government accepts this analysis and
leaves monetary policy in our hands. If things go well we bankers
channel the fury and unrest into puppet movements and pressure groups
that carry our agents into full control of the government. Once in
charge we devalue our outstanding bank notes in terms of gold and make
them inconvertible for all but possibly foreign Central Banks and begin
plans to restore a "prosperity" that will be totally ours.
When lucky, we are able to confiscate the gold of private citizens as
punishment for hoarding during the climax of the depression .
Once the old order is subdued during the chaos of the crash and
desperation of the depression, the field is open for our full finance
capitalist system to be realized. If the money lords behind the Central
Bank can avoid lapsing into political and economic. competition among
themselves a new and lasting order can be established. A war timed for
this period of consolidation provides the perfect excuse for the
regimentation required to crush all opposition.
Professor B., a former Chairman of a Central Bank, will explain the
functioning of the Central Bank in the typical, fully developed finance
capitalist system.
-- PROFESSOR B. ON THE FUNCTION OF THE CENTRAL BANK IN THE MATURE
FINANCE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
In its pristine form a Central Bank is a private monopoly of a nation's
money and credit issuance supported by the coercive power of the state.
That the Central Bank be directly in our hands is vital until our new
order is firmly established throughout the governmental, business,
intellectual and political spheres of society. After our order is
consolidated, formal nationalization of the Central Bank with great
fanfare is usually advisable in order to dispel any lingering suspicion
that it is operated for private gain. Of course only loyal agents of the
dynasty are allowed to obtain high offices in the Bank and our power
remains intact. Obvious private monopolies are always the targets of
sharp reformist agitators. Only the most paranoid, however, can see
through the public facade to the private monopoly of the nationalized or
quasi-nationalized Central Bank.
The Central Bank is the primary monopoly on which all our monopoly power
depends. The occult power of the Central Bank to create money out of
nothing is the fountain head that fuels our far-flung financial and
political empire. I will make a quick survey of a few of the ways this
secret money power is brought to bear.
Basically, the power of our Central Bank flows from its control over the
points of entry into the economy of new, inflationary money which it
creates out of thin air. Ordinarily, bills of exchange, acceptances,
private bonds, government bonds and other credit instruments are
purchased by the Central Bank through specially privileged dealers in
order to put the new money, often only checking accounting entries, into
circulation. The dealers are allowed a large profit since they are
fronts operated by our agents. Our purchase of government securities
pleases the government, as our purchase of private debt pleases private
debtors. As a quid pro quo to assure "good management" our agents are
given directorships, managerial posts, and offices in the corporations
and governments so benefited. As the addiction to the narcotic of
inflationary easy credit grows and grows we demand more and more control
of our dependent entourage of governments and corporations. When we
finally end the easy credit to "combat inflation" the enterprises and
governments either fall directly into our hands, bankrupt, or are
rescued at the price of total control.
Also, we ruling bankers control the flow of money in the economy through
the wide authority of the Central Bank to license, audit, and regulate
private banks. Banks that loan to interests outside the loyal entourage
are "audited" by the Central Bank and found to be dangerously
overextended. Just a hint of insolvency from the respected Central Bank
authorities is enough to cause a run on the disobedient bank or at least
dry up its vital lines of credit. Soon the banking establishment learns
to follow the hints and nods of your father's agents at the Central Bank
automatically.
Further, the periodic cycles of easy money and tight money that we
initiate through our control of the Central Bank cause corresponding
fluctuations in all markets. Our inner circle knows in advance the
timing of these cycles and, therefore reaps windfall profits by
speculating in commodity, stock, currency, gold, and bond markets.
Monopolistic stock and commodity Exchanges are a vital adjunctto our
power made possible by our Central Bank power. We do not allow a fair
auction market to exist, but make a great show of "tough" government
regulation to create a false sense of confidence among small investors.
With the aid of our regulatory charade and financial power we are able
to maintain Exchanges tailored to our entourage's need to manipulate
stock prices at the expense of independent investors. Our privileged
specialists on the floors of our Exchanges, aided by the propaganda of
our financial press and brokerage houses, continually play on naiveté
and greed to drain the savings of the unwary into our coffers. The
stock, commodities, and securities held in trading accounts by the
Exchange and brokerage houses provides us with a clout far beyond our
own actual holdings with which we can manipulate prices and win proxy
fights for corporate takeovers.
Little danger to our lucrative racket exists from public spirited
regulation. Our manipulations are so complex that only the most
brilliant experts could comprehend them. To most economists our Exchange
operations appear to be helpful efforts to "stabilize" the market. We
ruling bankers, if able to keep peace among ourselves, become richer and
richer as time passes without the annoyance of exerting productive
effort of benefit to others.
The next speaker, Professor G. will discuss the secrets of social
legislation and policy that do so much to cement our power.
-- PROFESSOR G. ON SOCIAL AND BUSINESS LEGISLATION AND POLICY
The danger to our system clearly is not that the "people" will
spontaneously rise up and dispossess us. The "people" never initiate
anything. All successful movements are led from the top, usually without
the knowledge of the movement, by men like your father with vast
resources and brilliant plans. The real danger arises in the upper-
middle classes. Occasionally, these people make vast fortunes through
some brilliant technological innovation in their business or through the
favor of local politicians that escape our influence. Because of their
ignorance of the reality of our power, however, the new rich usually
fall easily into our hands. For instance, they seldom realize until too
late that the dozens of loans they may owe to apparently independent
banks can be called simultaneously with a mere nod from your father.
Graver danger is presented by those whose enterprises are so successful
as to be self-financing. Since the advent of the corporate income tax
truly self-financing corporations are extremely rare. Most disquieting
is when these upstarts acquire the covert or open support and advice of
your father's major international antagonists. This is particularly
dangerous in countries with long democratic traditions where it is
difficult to make our arbitrary rulings stick.
The best solution is to enact comprehensive taxes and business
regulations in the name of the common good. Such measures reduce the
incidence of significant upstart competition to manageable levels. This
policy, of course, strangles innovation and productivity. Reduction of
the GNPs in countries under your father's control would be acceptable in
the interests of secure power under the pretext of conservation,
ecology, or no-growth stability except that if carried too far your
father's clout vis-a-vis his international rivals would be impaired. The
most difficult problem for the money lord is determining the level of
social and economic freedom he dares allow for the sake of his
international power. One method is to maintain a home base of carefully
monitored, relative freedom on which to base the economic and military
strength required to maintain an empire of totalitarian dictatorships
abroad. The following measures, however, are found necessary by nearly
all money lords:
1. Steeply Graduated Income Tax. Income tax does not affect us because
our money was accumulated before the tax was imposed and most of it is
now safely protected in our network of tax-exempt foundations.
Foundation income and capital can legally be used to finance the bulk of
our social, economic, literary, and even political propaganda. In a
pinch it is easily diverted to illegal uses. Expensive "studies"
required by our profitable economic operations can be legitimately
financed through foundations.
To the middle classes, however, income tax makes life into an endless
treadmill. Even the most productive find themselves unable to accumulate
significant capital. They are forced into the clutches of our Central
Bank entourage for injections of the inflationary credit which we are
privileged to create out of nothing. The self-financing wealth of the
legendary 19th Century robber barons and early Twentieth Century tycoons
is no longer possible. Although your grand father owed his start to just
those wide-open conditions, he was among the first of the super-rich to
advocate the erection of the tax wall that is now in place. Please note
that in democratic countries eternal vigilance is required to prevent
our tax shield from being riddled with loop holes by conniving
legislators, who are usually of the tax oppressed, upper-middle class
origins themselves.
2. Business Regulation. When upstarts slip through our financial
tentacles and tax shields, perhaps with the aid of outsiders, a second
line of defense becomes vital. Licensing in the crucial area of
broadcasting has proven particularly necessary. This makes serious
upstart-led mass political challenge impossible. Harassment by
bureaucrats armed with arbitrary and voluminous industrial safety
regulations is a new and increasingly effective technique. Security
registration requirements, "to protect the small investor," can cause
fatal delays in an upstart's ability to raise capital on the stock
market. Ecological considerations are easily perverted to stymie the
plans of those who would upset the stability of our carefully planned
system.
Anti-trust law, however, is our ultimate weapon. The handy doctrine of
"pure and perfect" competition which we have fostered in our
universities is ideally suited to convicting any successful competitor,
at our discretion. If the competitor charges a lower price than ours he
is accused of "unfair competition" aimed at driving us from the field to
impair future competition. If he asks the same price as we, he is open
to the charge of collusion. If he charges more than us, he is obviously
exploiting his "monopoly power" at the expense of the consumer.
Fortunately, the rulings of our bureaucrats are so complicated that even
when successfully appealed in court many years elapse before the ruling
is rendered. By then our goals are often achieved through harassment.
Product quality, safety, and testing regulations are excellent methods
by which we insulate our established industries from potential
competition. Beside raising the costs of entry into the auto business,
for instance, the cost of "safety" can be passed to the consumer along
with a healthy profit mark-up.
3. Besides, Tariffs, and Foreign Aid. Although direct subsidies can
occasionally be procured for our entourage of corporations by appealing
to the masses' desire to preserve jobs, this exploitive technique is
usually too obvious. Tariffs are easily passed, but lead to retaliation
against our foreign holdings. Foreign aid and soft (sure to be
defaulted) government guaranteed loans, however, fill the bill perfectly
under modern conditions. Foreign aid maintains our empire of foreign
dictators abroad while providing guaranteed, highly profitable sales to
our corporations at home base. Foreign aid should always be contingent
on the purchase of goods, usually military hardware, that only our
entourage of firms can provide. Few have the courage to oppose such
altruistic aid to the "starving masses" of the "third world."
4. Centralization of Power. Real division of power between national,
state, and local government is dangerous to our system. When local
politicians have real autonomy, even in limited spheres, they can do
much to enable upstarts to challenge our power.Our program is to bring
all levels of government under our sway through such innovations as
federal aid, revenue sharing, high federal taxation, and regional
government.
5. Alliance with the Lower Classes. In order to keep our valuable
regulatory machinery in place and under our control we must have the
mass support of the numerous lower classes against our vigorous, but
scarce middle-class rivals. The best method is to provide the lower
classes with subsidies at the expense of the middle class. This creates
a mutual hatred that prevents the middle class from appealing
effectively to the lower classes for support. Social security, free
health care, unemployment benefits, and direct welfare payments, while
doing nothing for us directly, create a de pendent class whose support
for our critical measures can easily be made part of a package deal.
Please note also that the major labor unions began with our financing
and are led to this day by leaders of our choosing. No one can rise to
or remain at the top of a rough and tumble union without our financial
backing. In spite of their rebellious rhetoric, bought union leaders are
the source of our power over the management of firms with widely held
stock. Unions are the ultimate weapon for destroying otherwise
invulnerable, self-financing rivals. Further, downward flexibility of
wages and prices which obtains without widespread unionization would in
crease the ability of the economy to survive without our aid during the
economic crises we create.
Bread and circuses are as useful today as in Roman times for mobilizing
the mob against our staid adversaries. Next, Professor D. will describe
our education policies.
-- PROFESSOR D. ON THE ROLE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
In order to maintain our system of power, the institution of universal
public education is indispensable. The anarchy of private education in
which any manner of dangerous ideas could be spread cannot be tolerated.
Thus we make private education financially impossible to all but the
few, mostly the elite offspring of our financial entourage, by means of
burdensome taxation and regulation. The primary purpose of public
education is to inculcate the idea that our crucial institutions of
coercion and monopoly were created for the public good by popular
national heroes to blunt the past power of the malefactors of great
wealth. Crucial is to create the impression that, although the people
have been exploited in the past, today the wealthy are at the mercy of
an all powerful government which is firmly in the hands of the people or
do-gooding liberals.
For those of more sophistication who reject this Pollyanna view of
reality, we promote the "liberal reformer mentality" which holds that a
new era of reform is on the verge of crushing forever the last vestiges
of money lordism. Of course, the reforms, after taking shape as a
bewildering myriad of regulatory agencies and taxes, are found to be
ineffective in subordinating our power to the popular will, whereupon we
stir up another era of progressive reform.
Our contrived Left-Right spectrum which our compulsory education helps
to make universal is valuable in assuring that this charade does not get
out of hand. The Pollyannas in the middle are neither dangerous nor
useful in this endeavor. What is needed is a feeble, but persistent
right-conservatism to moderate and emasculate the liberal reforms.
Conservatives tend to resist all the advances in centralized, government
power that we lead the liberals to see as necessary in order to totally
end the "undemocratic" power of money in society. Conservatism would
rather promote a "pluralism" of competing interests in which money is
the medium of competition than risk the excesses of "big government."
When "liberal" reforms show signs of exceeding our intentions and
actually threaten to place our key institutions in the hands of the
people, we can always count on the conservatives to defend our power
under the illusion that they are defending the legitimate rights of
"free-enterprise capitalists.'' On the rare occasions when conservatives
call for subjecting our enterprises to laissez-faire competition, we can
count on the dominant liberal reformers to insist on more government
interference, unaware of our desire for such, in effect, self
administered regulation.
The Right has such a fear of the Left's dream of democratic collectivism
and the Left such a hatred for what it sees as the Right's elitist,
rugged individualism that there is little danger that they will ever
join forces to overturn our government-backed monopolies even though we
violate the ideals of both left and right.
Centralization of control at the state, or preferably national level,
assists in building the climate of opinion we require in public
education. Failing to obliterate local control, other methods nearly as
effective are available. Our overwhelming financial clout in the
publishing industry can induce relatively uniform textbook selection.
Further leverage can be created by promoting teacher colleges and
teaching machines. National teacher's associations and unions are also
an excellent power base from which to foster our programs of
indoctrination.
With our great influence in publishing and publicity we are able to
selectively popularize educational theorists whose views are
incidentally beneficial, compatible, or at least not in conflict with
our own goals. This way we obtain sincere, energetic activists to
propagate our desires without having to reveal our motives or even
existence. We do not want an educational system that produces hard-
driving individuals bent on amassing great wealth and power. Therefore,
we discourage education that would develop the potential powers of
students to their fullest. "Liberal" education that stresses knowledge
for its own sake or even sophistry and sterile mental gymnastics is of
no danger to us. "Relevant," vocational, or career oriented education
also poses no danger to our power. Education that prepares students to
accept a cog-like existence in our military-industrial-social-welfare
regulation complex is ideal. Progressive education with its stress on
"social adjustment" also produces the conformity we require of our
subjects. Emphasis on competitive sports may produce a certain amount of
disruptive competitiveness among the participants, but primarily has the
effect of creating life-long voyeuristic spectators who will
enthusiastically sublimate their competitiveness into endless hours of
following college and professional sports on the boob tube. Space
spectaculars and dramatic political infighting are also marvelous
diversions with which to occupy the masses.
Anyone seeking social change will gravitate to the field of education.
Our strategy is simple: Let only those succeed whose influence would be
compatible with our power. En courage all who would develop the passive
or receptive mode of existence. Discourage all who promote the
aggressive or active capacities. Build a great cult of salvation through
end less education, touting it as the "democratic" path to success.
Deride the frontal approach to success of the "outmoded" rugged
individualist.
Before yielding the floor to Professor X., who will discuss the role of
secret societies and prestigious clubs, I would like to comment on the
demise of religious education as a vehicle for social control. Religion,
in its time, was a remarkable weapon for inculcating subservience,
altruism, and self-abrogation among our subjects. We did not give up
this weapon voluntarily. Your grandfather, for one, supported the
Baptist faith well after most finance capitalists had turned wholly to
secular ideologies. However, a trend toward rationality in human affairs
plods along inexorably quite outside the reach of our power. Only in our
totalitarian dictatorships can this trend be quashed entirely. In the
semi-open societies in which our money power is based, the forces of
reason can only be impeded and diverted. Some have theorized that,
eventually, widespread rational egoism will overturn our order. I am
confident that secular faiths and just plain confusion will suffice to
sustain our power for many centuries to come.
-- PROFESSOR X. ON PRESTIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS AND SECRET SOCIETIES
In preserving and protecting our grasp on nations we must exert veiled
control of all major opinion molding associations and especially
prestigious clubs which attract the leaders in various fields and do so
much to influence the dispensing of commanding positions in government
and business. Associations of the leading scholars, businessmen,
writers, religionists, artists, bureaucrats, newsmen, ideologists,
publishers, broadcasters, and professional men as well as special
interest groups representing laborers, farmers, consumers, racial
minorities, and so on must be subtly kept under the broad limits of our
sway. Since membership dues and fees are never sufficient to support
their ambitious activities, voluntary, non-profit organizations are easy
prey for the nearly unlimited financial resources of our entourage.
However, our real motive, to further our political and economic power,
must not be revealed in the process. Our policies must be laboriously
rationalized in terms compatible with prevalent ideologies and
moralities or the material advantage of the groups involved. Leaders of
such groups are remarkably quick to accept our rationalizations when
financial support is extended. We engage in outright bribery only as a
last resort, and then, only in extreme cases. Our long-range interests
are better served by temporarily postponing a policy victory than by
risking exposure of our power by attempting outright bribery. In fact,
clumsy bribery and intimidation attempts are characteristic of our
foolish nouveau riche opponents.
As an example, if we decide that federal rather than state chartering or
licensing of corporations would further our control over the economy, we
would not simply order politicians and opinion leaders to support our
desires. Corporations not relishing central control would be suspicious
that something was afoot and might expose our plot. Our strategy would
be as follows:
1. Sacrifice one of our less competent management teams in a well-
publicized corporate scandal in order to focus attention on the
"widespread problem of corporate corruption under current, lax
regulations."
2. Through well-funded agents, thrust into the publicity spotlight
intellectuals or groups who already support federal licensing as a
piecemeal step toward socialism. (One can find pre-existing supporters
for nearly any measure with sufficient effort.)
3. After the issue is before the public, offer to support through
foundations the "objective" study of the federal licensing proposals
being discussed with an eye toward proposing legislation. Often,
simultaneous support for studies by disreputable, irrational groups who
will oppose the proposal is useful as well. Provide no platform for
well-reasoned opposition.
4. When a ground swell of support appears to be building provide the
interested lobbying organizations with plenty of funds to grease the
palms of politicians. The enactment of the federal licensing law thus
appears as the will of society. Last ditch opposition automatically
appears mean spirited, obstructionist, reactionary, and paranoid,
serving only to discredit our opposition.
In our fully developed system of finance capitalist thought control and
promotion control, our hierarchy of prestigious associations is capped
by a single prestige society: The Council of World Affairs. This
organization is a front for the secret society of which your father is
head. This secret society is made up of the people who have spoken, plus
six others not present. You are replacing Professor Q. who is to retire
shortly. Eventually you will replace your father. We thirteen are your
father's advisors and only confidants. All other agents are misled as to
the bulk of our objectives and motives. Their knowledge is restricted to
the details required by their assignments. The penalty for disloyalty is
death.
The Council is invaluable for propagating our policy decisions to our
entourage without revealing our motives and strategy. In many instances,
policy can be successfully sold to our entourage and thus transmitted to
the multitudes by merely airing it along with appropriate
rationalizations in a single awe-inspiring session of the Council. The
informal power of the Council is such that our policy manipulations are
usually attainable without the clumsy exercises in brute power that
invariably snag the independent power seekers. The Council is at the
heart of what is called the Establishment and we are at the heart of the
Council.
At the Council's inception, we worked hard to attract the successful of
all fields with all the prestige that our money power could buy. We had
to work hard convincing the independent, self-made Council members to
move in harmony with our policy objectives. We had many failures. Now
everything is changed. Membership is no longer a reward for success as
much as it is a prerequisite for major success. Without Council
membership only the most outstanding can achieve national prominence.
With membership, glaring mediocrity, with the "right" attitudes, achieve
prominence. In fact, mediocrity is much more adapted to propagating our
policy rationalizations and less likely to detect and oppose our
ulterior motives. A power lusting mediocrity is not likely to judge his
benefactors too harshly or inquire diligently into the nature of the
power structure that brought him what he fears was undeserved success.
The vanity of even idealistic, committed humanitarians militates against
such a course.
The Council is now a giant employment agency of loyalists ready to
parrot our public line from the commanding posts of government,
foundations, broadcasting, industry, banking, and publishing. Although
Council members are encouraged to take sides and bicker over the
diversionary issues we create to entertain and enfeeble the populace,
their solidarity in defending our power structure, root and branch, when
pressed is a sight to behold! And to think that most see themselves as
righteous defenders of the public good while they dismiss whispered
rumors of our power structure as "kooky paranoia."
Classical secret societies with elaborate circles within circles no
longer play a major role in finance capitalist power structures. Most
wide membership secret societies have degenerated into middle class
excuses for escaping the wife and kids once a month for the company of
men. But secret societies were a major weapon of our bourgeoisie
forebears in their struggle with the old feudal order of kings and
princes. Under authoritarian despotism of the old style, the secret
society was the only place a free thinking man could express himself.
Through threats of exposure, loyalty oaths, patronage, deception, and
rewards we bound such malcontents into a fierce force for our
revolution. The multitude of degrees, occult mumbo-jumbo, and vague
humanitarianism concealed the real goals of our secret societies from
the bulk of the membership. The roles of the "Illuminated" Masonic
Lodges in European revolutions were decisive in our final victory over
the old order.
-- PROFESSOR Y. ON COVERT OPERATIONS AND INTELLIGENCE
In our fully developed state-capitalist systems we have found absolute
control of governmental intelligence gathering and covert operations to
be vital.
Besides providing a valuable tool in our struggle with rival dynasties,
such control is now an integral and necessary part of our day to day
operations. Large intelligence communities are inevitable, given the
system of all encompassing governments which we have imposed upon the
world during our ascent to power. Our power would be short-lived indeed
if the pervasive influence and power of these iron-disciplined
intelligence agencies fell into the hands of mere politicians,
especially those beyond our control.
We do not allow intelligence agencies to pursue the "national interest,"
the way the public conceives "spies" to operate. Politicians cannot be
permitted to divert the power and influence of our intelligence
community from the esoteric requirements of our Money Power to petty
political struggles.
Neither nationalistic aspirations of races and peoples nor ideological
visions of intellectuals for humanity can be allowed to pervert
intelligence and covert operations. Our rationalizations, both within
the intelligence community and to the public at large, must be diverse
and flexible, but the intelligence community must further without
exception the inexorable goals we have set for humanity.
No crisis is more serious for our Money Power than an attempt by a head
of government to assume personal control of intelligence and operations
or to by-pass existing agencies by setting up parallel ones. Such
intrusions must be met decisively. Although a contrived scandal to
remove the offending politician from office is the first line of
defense, we dare not shrink from assassination when necessary.
Perhaps the most accurate overview of our intelligence community can be
achieved by visualizing it as a "nationalized secret society." Our
predecessors, in their struggle against the old order of kings and
princes, had to finance secret societies such as the Illuminati, Masons,
German Union, etc. out of their own pockets.
At great expense and risk such secret societies were able to infiltrate
the major governmental and private institutions of the nations that our
noble predecessors targeted for take over by the Money Power. Such
bureaucratic take-overs are expensive and time consuming. They can be
considered complete only when promotions, raises, and advancements are
no longer based on objective service to the stated organizational
objectives, but are in the hands of the infiltrating group and its
secret goals.
How much easier it is for us, the inheritors of a fully developed state-
capitalist system! By appealing to "national security" we are able to
finance and erect secret societies of a colossal scope, far beyond the
wildest dreams of our path breaking predecessors. Besides the benefits
of public financing reaped by these "nationalized secret societies," we
obtain a decisive advantage from the fact that these our "spook"
operations are sanctioned by law!
Maintaining discipline, loyalty, and secrecy is no longer solely a
matter of propaganda, blackmail, patronage, and intimidation. Although
these remain important tools, especially in emergency cases, ordinary
discipline among initiates (now called agents) can be encouraged by
appealing to patriotism and can be enforced in courts of law by
prosecuting "national security violations."
As massive as our intelligence community has become in itself, we still
operate strictly on the finance capitalist principle of leverage. Just
as a rational finance capitalist never owns more stock in a corporation
than the bare minimum required for control, intelligence operatives are
placed only in as many key positions as are required to control the
target organizations. Our goal, after all, is agent control of all
significant organizations, not intelligence community member ship for
the entire population.
The organizational pattern of baffling "circles within circles,"
characteristic of classical secret societies, is retained and refined by
our intelligence community. That "one hand not know what the other is
doing" is essential to the success of our operations. In most cases, we
do not allow the operatives themselves to know the ultimate, and when
possible, even the short-range objectives of their assignments.
They operate under "covers" that disguise our goals not only from the
public and target groups, but from the agents themselves. For instance,
many agents operating under "left cover" are led to believe that the
agency, or at least their department, is secretly, but sincerely
motivated by socialistic ideology. Thus, they assume that the
intelligence agency's ultimate goal is to guide left-wing groups in
"productive" directions, even though they cannot always see how their
own assignment fits into those assumed goals.
Other "left-cover" agents, those with right-wing predilections, are
encouraged to believe the agency is simply "monitoring" violence prone,
subversive groups in order to protect the public. When such agents are
asked to participate in or even lead radical activity they assume that
the ultimate objective is to fully infiltrate and destroy the
organization for the good of the country. This is very seldom the case.
We waste little or no money protecting the "public" or defending the
"nation."
Agents operating under "right-cover" are handled in symmetrical fashion.
Agents with right-wing prejudices are encouraged to believe the agency
is right-wing. Left-prejudiced agents are asked to operate under "right-
cover" in order to "monitor" dangerous rightist organizations. Most
intelligence agents remain blithely ignorant of the big picture which is
so clear to us from our spectacular vantage point. Very few have enough
information or intelligence to reason out how their specific and
sometimes baffling assignments promote the legislative, judicial,
operational and propaganda needs of our Money Power. Most would never
try. They are paid too much to think about such things.
Agents with a "gangster-cover" are of two types. First, there is the
sincere gangster that draws his salary from an intelligence agency. He b
led to believe that the gangland "Godfathers" control the government
agency for their own purposes. Actually, the situation is the opposite.
The agency controls the gangster for other purposes. Second, is the
sincere crime fighter who is led to believe that the agency is at
tempting to infiltrate and monitor the gangsters as a preliminary step
to destroying organized crime. Such "upstanding" agents commit many
crimes in their zeal to rid the country of organized crime!
To envision how we operate in this lucrative field, let's briefly look
at the mechanics of dope smuggling. Police and customs officials are
told to leave certain gangsters alone, even when transporting suspicious
cargoes. This is made to seem perfectly proper since it is well known
that secret police infiltrators of organized crime must participate in
crimes in order to gain the confidence of gangsters.
What customs agent would want to upset a carefully laid plan to "set-up"
the underworld kingpins of dope pushing! But the agent, as well as the
police who cooperate, are mistaken in believing that the purpose of the
assignment to help smuggle dope is ultimately to smash organized crime.
If he could see the big picture, as we can, the agent would see that
practically all our dope is smuggled by federal intelligence agents and
secret police! How ever could such a volume be transported safely? Real
harassment and prosecution is reserved for those who enter the field
without our approval.
Here is our organized crime strategy: On the one hand we pass laws to
ensure that mankind's favorite pastimes (vices) are illegal. On the
other hand, we cater to these "vices" at a huge monopoly profit with
complete immunity from prosecution.
A new and growing methodology of our intelligence community is psycho
and drug-controlled agents. Properly, these are referred to as "behavior
modified" agents, or, in the vernacular, "zombies." With the use of
hypnotic drugs, brain washing, sensory deprivation, small group
"sensitivity" training, and other behavior modification techniques, the
scope of which was hinted in the movie "Clockwork Orange," complete
personalities can be manufactured from scratch, to the specifications of
value structure profiles we design by computer to suit our purposes.
Such personalities are quite neurotic and unstable due to defects in our
still developing technology, but still useful for many purposes.
The primary virtue of "zombies," of course, is loyalty. Agents that are
subconsciously programmed for the assignment at hand cannot be conscious
traitors. All a "zombie" can do is reveal how compulsive and psychotic
he is with regard to his "cause." Even to trained psychologists he
simply appears to be the proverbial "lone nut." Although the "zombie"
may have memories of psychotherapy at a government agency when
questioned under hypnosis, this is unlikely to raise suspicion in the
mind of court-appointed psychologists. After all, "lone nuts" should be
kept in insane asylums and subjected to psychotherapy! At most, the
government hospital will be reprimanded for letting a loony loose before
he was cured.
Until our techniques can be perfected the use of "zombies" must be
restricted to "national dramas" designed to justify the growing power of
our centralized governments over the lives of our people. Most suicidal
radicals and "crazies" who so mysteriously avoid arrest for years at a
time are "zombies" conditioned to terrorize the public in the name of
some irrational ideology. After repeated doses of such terror, the
public is conditioned to accept the necessity of our intrusive police-
state with very little objection.
The way is clear for an accelerated program of behavior modification
research to be conducted mostly at public expense in the name of mental
health and rehabilitation. Such research can be conducted with little
complaint in prisons, refugee camps, drug rehabilitation centers,
government hospitals, veterans hospitals, and even public schools and
day care centers. Mental institutions, methadone maintenance centers,
and prisons are fertile fields for recruiting the deranged or drug
addicted persons most suitable for "zombie" conversions. Of course, only
a few of our most trusted agents actually participate in the creation of
"zombies." The brilliant researchers and experimenters who make most of
the break-throughs earnestly believe that their techniques are destined
strictly for the betterment of mankind.
Inevitably, a fraction of the population objects to behavior
modification as an infringement of man's "sacred" free-will even if they
are convinced that our intentions are benign. We carefully leak a few
scandals to satisfy such persons that our experiments are being kept
within bounds and that excesses are being stopped. Our artificial
scandals exposing the "excesses" of coercive psychology are carefully
designed to make the researchers seem incompetent and clumsy to the
point of maiming and killing their "patients." This effectively conceals
the fantastic strides we have made toward total behavioral control.
Great things are going to be possible in the future.
-- MY CLOSING REMARKS
My son, you surely have many questions about my strategy in the
seemingly momentous economic and political crises that are shaking
national and international affairs. You and I will begin handling them
in detail shortly. For tonight, let me be brief. Most of the current
national upheavals are stage-managed to consolidate our monopoly
position in government and business against the continual nuisance of
economically competent, but politically naive competitors. Likewise,
most international crises are managed to exert pressure on our
obstreperous, reluctant puppet dictators in underdeveloped areas. These
events are fairly easy to manage. I expect to place such management in
your hands as soon as possible.
The real challenge lies in dealing with my international peers. These
are the real crises since they are crises of my power structure, not
just of my subject populations and puppets. In the vast chess game with
my peers there are no rules and no proven tactics. Mutual vulnerability,
alone, limits the conflict. My peers and I have labored for decades to
erect a world government and banking system under which we could all
share finance capitalism's millennium without the nightmare of
internecine warfare. With the advent of nuclear war a new world order
seemed particularly desirable. I say ostensibly we have labored for
world government because none of us are sure the others will ever
voluntarily surrender sovereignty to the group. The schedule set after
the last World War has not been met. So far, the world government idea
has served mainly to enthuse collectivist intellectuals, and secondarily
to veil each finance capitalist's maneuvers for supremacy from the rest.
The future course of finance capitalism is difficult to predict. Our
empires are too fragile to risk all-out battles for supremacy among
ourselves. Our power would dissipate to second echelon wealthy during
the struggle. Yet we continue to chip away at rival empires on the
premise that offense is the best defense. On the other hand, purely
political leaders are helpless before our money power. When Caesars
arise, they are of our making.
Perhaps our system will simply remain much as it is, secure on the
national level and disturbingly pluralistic at the international level,
until reason and egoism have developed among our populations to such an
extent that our occult technology of money power becomes obvious to all
who think and must yield to either anarchy or a more advanced form of
deception
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